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Parks and Recs issues · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas is the Power Hour on six to ten,
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  Speaker 1: WUTV in eight two, one nine, eight eighty six eight
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  Speaker 1: too one WTV in one, eight hundred and six ten
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  Speaker 1: double UTV in my number, my numbers, that's plural. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: S on the end. Be kind to the letters, be
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  Speaker 1: good to the letter S, for we'd all be in
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  Speaker 1: a mess if we didn't have S to put at
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  Speaker 1: the end of a word. See that's from the electric Companieszac,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know nothing about that. I remember the Electric
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  Speaker 1: Company really vaguely. I can't believe you remember that vaguely.
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  Speaker 2: Now, it could be reruns, it could be so, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I do. I remember the intro was like maybe it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't it like one.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna turn it on. Yeah, we're gonna bring in
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  Speaker 3: the power. We're gonna light up the lights so that
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  Speaker 3: you can't see through the courtesy of the electric company.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember.
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  Speaker 2: They would teach things. They'd have like an outline of
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  Speaker 2: one person, outline of another person. Then they would be like,
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  Speaker 2: s ay whatever whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And that was where that was where I was introduced
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  Speaker 1: to Morgan Freeman. Oh really. Morgan Freeman was a character
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  Speaker 1: called easy Reader. Easier Reader that's my name, and that
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  Speaker 1: was his thing. He was. He was a denim clad
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  Speaker 1: head band in sunglasses wearing guy who made reading cool.
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  Speaker 2: His voice makes anything cool, though.
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  Speaker 1: I have it's okay, I'm not I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 1: I And I think I'm developing a some degree of
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  Speaker 1: disdain for his uh, for his voice, because that Ai
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  Speaker 1: voice that they're using in all of those rectile commercials
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to sound like him. You know, are you
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  Speaker 1: paying nine hundred dollars per pill? If so, look at this,
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  Speaker 1: I'll take one hundred milligram plays, please, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: It's and I because of that voice. Yeah, I just
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I I if the movie, if
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the picture pops up on my stream
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  Speaker 1: and says, you know, Morgan Freeman's in it, generally I
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  Speaker 1: watch it. Yeah, he's made a lot of it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: quite a few, quite a few. So let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: McCoy Field. McCoy Park. Have you ever been there? You're
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  Speaker 1: missing nothing. It's it's kind of a whole I'm just
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  Speaker 1: being honest. It's it's really nothing but grass. There's nothing there.
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  Speaker 1: So the city of Columbus, you know, those people that
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  Speaker 1: made the statue disappeared. The City of Columbus promised that
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  Speaker 1: they were going to they were going to improve McCoy
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  Speaker 1: Park and put some facilities down there for the community
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  Speaker 1: on the south side. I did hear one interesting when
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  Speaker 1: one member of council on the Channel six news who said,
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  Speaker 1: the people who live in this track, the average age
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  Speaker 1: lifespan is fifty years. Like, what the hell, No, I
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  Speaker 1: know plenty of old people that live down there fifty
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  Speaker 1: years that I want to see some proof of that.
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  Speaker 1: That's a heck of a thing to say that the
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  Speaker 1: people living on the south side of Columbus and that
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  Speaker 1: uh that area, their average lifespan is fifty years. That's garbage.
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  Speaker 1: I want proof, seriously, I mean that, and if I'm
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  Speaker 1: proven wrong, I will come right here and apologize for it.
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  Speaker 1: But I know plenty of open I think what they
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  Speaker 1: were doing is they were figuring in the people in
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  Speaker 1: the cemetery across the street that maybe because Green Lawn
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  Speaker 1: Cemetery is just right down the road there. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the city promised they were going to build this place
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  Speaker 1: up and make it a nice park with some facilities
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  Speaker 1: for the children and so forth. Right now, it's just
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  Speaker 1: grass that's all it is. It's a it's a big
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  Speaker 1: patch of grass with minimal parking available and and uh
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  Speaker 1: and badly marked fields where you know, some kids play
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  Speaker 1: soccer or right now flag football is going on over there,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of thing. But it's nothing. It's nothing. So
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  Speaker 1: the city said we're going to do so now. Now
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  Speaker 1: Andy Ginther and company they want to be the women's
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  Speaker 1: sports here in Columbus, right, so they're talking about bringing
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  Speaker 1: this women's soccer team to Columbus, Ohio. And they, for
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  Speaker 1: some reason say the training facility for the women's soccer
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  Speaker 1: team in conjunction with the Haslam family. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: why the hell do they have to own every sports
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  Speaker 1: entity in Ohio? Is that a statute? We need to
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  Speaker 1: check into that too. So that this is the only
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  Speaker 1: place this can go and it's impossible to move it.
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  Speaker 1: Why why I don't understand that either. Why just plan
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  Speaker 1: on putting it somewhere else? Why anything is possible if
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  Speaker 1: you want it and you put the effort into it.
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  Speaker 1: When I heard that this morning, this is the only
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  Speaker 1: place you can go. It's impossible to move it. Bs man.
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  Speaker 1: When Penn National pursued casino gambling, it went on the
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  Speaker 1: ballot and the people of Ohio, of Columbus, Ohio, voted
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  Speaker 1: in favor of the ballot issue to build a Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: casino here in Columbus. The language in the ballot issue
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  Speaker 1: stipulated the location of the casino. The people of the
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  Speaker 1: Central Ohisle voted. They said, yes, we are voting for this,
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  Speaker 1: and it said the casino was going to be down
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  Speaker 1: there by the arena by the Blue Jackets, which, oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, you think Mark has it tough? Now the
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  Speaker 1: casino was supposed to go there. Well, the developers they say, hey, hey, hey, no,
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  Speaker 1: we got to put some other stuff in it. We
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  Speaker 1: don't want to casino in here, man, We need we
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  Speaker 1: need to build some other stuff that'll make us more money.
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  Speaker 1: And so the mayor at the time, Michael B. Coleman, said,
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  Speaker 1: well that we have to move the casino, and somebody
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  Speaker 1: who bothered to read the ballot issue said we can't.
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  Speaker 1: The ballot issue specifies this will be the location for
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  Speaker 1: the casino. And the mayor, the man who ran the city,
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  Speaker 1: who signed off on everything that happened. The mayor had
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  Speaker 1: the audacity and I generally like him as a guy,
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  Speaker 1: I really did, but had the audacity to come before
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  Speaker 1: the people of Columbus and say, I didn't know where
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  Speaker 1: they were going to place it. How do you not
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  Speaker 1: know where they're going to place the casino in your city?
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  Speaker 1: But what they did is they said, what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do is we're going to put another issue on
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  Speaker 1: the on the ballot to move the casino. And they
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  Speaker 1: decided over there on my beloved West Side, the site
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  Speaker 1: of the former General Motor Slash Fisher Body plant and
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  Speaker 1: to some degree the old Westinghouse plant. Those what they
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  Speaker 1: call brown fields over there were going to be where
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  Speaker 1: the new casino was going to go. So they came
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  Speaker 1: to the communities on the west Side and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what we want to do is we want to say
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  Speaker 1: it's okay to bring the casino over here. You'll need
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  Speaker 1: to vote on it. I know this story well because
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  Speaker 1: I was intimately involved. I was chairing the area Commission
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  Speaker 1: that had to approve this thing. So we have a
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  Speaker 1: big meeting. They used to meet at the library. The
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  Speaker 1: crowd was so big. Yeah, I'm not joking. We moved
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  Speaker 1: the meeting to a funeral home. One of our members
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  Speaker 1: of the area Commission was Bob Spears, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have a funeral tonight. We can use that.
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  Speaker 1: It's an auditorium essentially, So we took the meeting from
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  Speaker 1: the library over to the Spirit's funeral home on the
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  Speaker 1: west side. The place was packed and there were people
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  Speaker 1: yay and people nay, and it got loud and it
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  Speaker 1: got boisterous, and I was standing in the middle trying
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  Speaker 1: to moderate this thing so that the commission could take
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  Speaker 1: a vote and issue a position to the City of Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: The meeting went on for hours. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: about eleven o'clock when we finally called it quitz. And
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  Speaker 1: after after we got all through that and took the
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  Speaker 1: vote and came to the commission's conclusion. That's when the
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  Speaker 1: mayor and city council took credit for all the hard
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  Speaker 1: work they did with the community. To man, y'all weren't
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  Speaker 1: even here. I was the one standing in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of all that. But the area Commission did endorse the
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  Speaker 1: idea of moving it over there, largely because there was
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  Speaker 1: nothing else happening. Westland Mall was coming to its conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: There was no other development really happening. We had lost
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  Speaker 1: Circuit City at that point, we had lost a media play.
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  Speaker 1: We had a cols out there. It went away. Target
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  Speaker 1: was going away. We had to get something going, so
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  Speaker 1: we said, okay, here's the interesting part. I don't ever
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  Speaker 1: recall a vote, a city wide vote to remove the
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  Speaker 1: approved casino from the Arena district. There was a vote
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  Speaker 1: to move it to the west side, but not a
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  Speaker 1: vote to remove it from its originally approved location. And
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  Speaker 1: to this day I wondered about that. So Shannon Harden,
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  Speaker 1: president of Koma City Council, was on the Channel six
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  Speaker 1: news this morning and it was laughable. As the reporter
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  Speaker 1: what did she ask? Something like that, do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you've lied to the people in the community, And
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  Speaker 1: he stood quite literally for about two and a half
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  Speaker 1: seconds with his mouth hanging open before he could answer
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  Speaker 1: the question. It was on the early morning news this morning,
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  Speaker 1: in the six o'clock hour. I did not see it
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  Speaker 1: on subsequent newscast. I don't know if they got a
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  Speaker 1: call say hey, take that out man, that makes him
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  Speaker 1: look bad. But for some reason they stopped using that footage.
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  Speaker 1: The Haslims, they got the Cleveland Browns. They want your
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  Speaker 1: unclean funds to build a new stadium for the Cleveland Browns.
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  Speaker 1: They got the Columbus Crew. Do we throw any money
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  Speaker 1: into the new Crew Stadium over there is any taxpayer
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  Speaker 1: dollars involved in that? I'm not sure, hopefully not. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, and now they want to bring
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  Speaker 1: women soccer, which you know, on the surface, I go
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  Speaker 1: ain't gonna work. But I said that about the Blue
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  Speaker 1: Jackets too, So I'm not somebody who's going to be
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  Speaker 1: going to see it. But I can't say that it
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  Speaker 1: will not draw a crowd and be successful here. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't know if it is going to be successful
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to make money, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: so popular, Why do tax dollars have to go into it?
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  Speaker 1: Why does taxpayer own land that was promised to be
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  Speaker 1: used for the citizens on the south side and this
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  Speaker 1: people on the south side have been taking it up
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  Speaker 1: the nose for years. Man, if it if it was smelly, nasty, dirty,
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  Speaker 1: or it blew up, we put it on the south
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  Speaker 1: side and they they've taken it hard, long, long, per
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  Speaker 1: far too long. They should get their park because what
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  Speaker 1: they have now is grass. And I don't believe that
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  Speaker 1: that practice facility cannot be moved somewhere else. I've heard
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  Speaker 1: that story before, and we proved it incorrect, And I
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  Speaker 1: don't think you know. With the Haslims, obviously they're rich
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  Speaker 1: and they're making more money. The Browns aren't losing money.
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  Speaker 1: The crew's not losing money, so they're making money. If
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  Speaker 1: they want to invest in a sports team, let them
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  Speaker 1: do that, but it should not require taxpayer dollars. You
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  Speaker 1: want to sell you want to sell shares, we can
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. You want to go Green Bay Packers
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  Speaker 1: and let the people of Columbus own part of the team,
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  Speaker 1: gets some dividend checks from the success, we can talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. Instead of saying we want you to approve
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  Speaker 1: a bond so your city can borrow money that you
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  Speaker 1: have to pay back, why don't you sell us bonds
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  Speaker 1: in your new stadium and we can get a piece
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  Speaker 1: of those tickets, whether it's soccer or concerts or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: the money generated by that stadium that you want to build.
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  Speaker 1: How about letting the people of Central Ohio that toprove it,
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  Speaker 1: allow it and funded how about letting us get a
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  Speaker 1: piece of it. I don't think that's out of the question.
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  Speaker 1: But to swoop in and say, yeah, we're just going
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  Speaker 1: to take your park away, break our promises and put
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  Speaker 1: up something that nobody asked for or saw coming because
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  Speaker 1: we want to be cool with women's sports. That's bogus.
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  Speaker 1: That is absolutely wrong. And I hope the people on
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  Speaker 1: the South Side fight this hard and loud and don't
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  Speaker 1: get bought off. Get what you want, get what you
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  Speaker 1: need in your community. And the we can't move this thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe it at all. Or maybe that's just me. Zah,
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  Speaker 1: you've been so quiet. I forgot to give you an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity before the music started to get save you got
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  Speaker 1: any thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think we should just give at least half
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  Speaker 2: our tax money to the rich people who are trying
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  Speaker 2: to build just for sports so they don't have to
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  Speaker 2: lose any money.
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  Speaker 1: Well, wealthy people have it hard, yeah, yeah, no they don't.
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  Speaker 1: Music is playing. Thanks very much, Senator Hugh Staid for
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  Speaker 1: I dropping by Zach. We'll get that podcast posted if
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  Speaker 1: you missed the enthusiastic talk with him. Thirty three hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars plus the average tax refund this year. It's already
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  Speaker 1: sounds like the Senator is very proud of that. It's
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